ENCAP - ADDRESSING THE NEEDS TO CAPTURE CO_2 EFFICIENTLY

摘要

ENCAP is a recent established R&D Integrated Project within the European Union 6th R&D Framework Programme (FP6). The project aims at technologies that meet the target of at least 90% capture rate and 50% CO2-capture-cost reduction. A group of 28 legal entities comprising 6 large European fossil fuel end users, 11 leading technology providers and 16 high ranked RTD providers has agreed to establish the ENCAP consortium. ENCAP is organised as an integrated project (IP) having an impact of the results on the medium to longer term. The objective is to develop new pre-combustion CO2-capture technologies and processes for power generation based on fossil fuels - mainly hard coal, lignite and natural gas - that are conceived as affordable and clean, and which can be integrated with sustainable energy systems. Main targets for ENCAP are to: 1. Perform research and development on pre-combustion CO2 capture (incl. pre-normative and socio-economic impacts) and validate by testing technical and economic feasibility of concepts, and also interact with research-related networks and carry out training and dissemination; 2. Deliver results that have the potential for a wide commercial exploitation with the time horizon 2015-2020. ENCAP will generate knowledge and results that enable power companies to decide to launch a new design project by 2008-2010 aimed a large-scale demonstration plant.